wanderingsoul comments on Open Thread, October 16-31, 2012

[wanderingsoul]

Not too long ago I wanted to write a poem to express a poem to express a certain emotion, defiance toward death, but it only occurred to me recently that it might be LW appropriate. I took a somewhat different path than “do not go gentle...” but you can judge yourselves how it went. Posted in the open thread as I feel it is relatively open to random stuff like this. (Formatting screwy because I’m not used to the format here yet)

Defiance

I am afraid

        All about me the lights blink out

        Seeing their fate I’m filled with fear

        I want to run, I want to shout

        Perhaps this time someone will hear

I am dust

        Dancing mannequin of the wind

        I cannot see what strings bind me

        I have lived and laughed, loved and sinned

        Never knowing if I was free

                                But no more!

I am alive

        Bind me no more, you dust!  This mind

        knows the fires of love and life

        Any dust that burns this bright

        Is not cold enough to truly bind

I am human

        Two arms, two legs, a mind of steel

        Latest line of nature’s skyward stride

        But so much more, to think and feel

        In the land where no dreams have died

I am mankind

        I am not, nor was ever alone

        With loving brothers at my side

        I’ll shout the truth this love has shown

        The joy for which so many cried

And I am rising The life we feel is more than death

        The love is worth more than the fear

        And one day we’ll kill you, little death

        If it takes mankind a thousand years



        So take me if you will and can

        Though I’ll fight you the whole way

        Soon will come the age of man

        That day when a child can say

                                                         that

I am not afraid

[listic]

Are you familiar with “Today I Die”? (also available on App Store) Seemed appropriate.

[wanderingsoul]

I hadn’t, but it was worth the while. I agree, thanks